Amazon, RIM up, while H-P shares slip

Eloqua shares soar on Oracle plan to buy cloud-based firm

SAN FRANCISCO (MarketWatch) — Shares of Research In Motion edged higher Thursday ahead of the handset-maker’s quarterly report, while Eloqua Inc. saw its stock soar on news that it is being acquired by Oracle Corp.

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Research In Motion CEO Thorsten Heins discusses features of the Blackberry 10 during his keynote address during the Blackberry Jam Americas in San Jose, California in this September 25, 2012, file photo.

RIM
US:RIMMCA:RIM
was up 1% at $13.75, ahead of a closely-watched fiscal third-quarter report which analysts hope could shed light on the state of the beleaguered BlackBerry-maker.

Meanwhile, shares of Eloqua
US:ELOQ
surged after Oracle
ORCL, -0.67%
announced that it was buying the cloud-based marketing automation platform company, for $23.50 a share, or about $871 million.

Shares of Eloqua were up more than 30% at $23.49, while Oracle was up a fraction at $34.20.

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Amazon.com
AMZN, -0.66%
also joined the gainers, its stock up 0.1% at $258.21. The online retailer said its film production arm, Amazon Studios, was going to produce six comedy series pilots, underscoring the company’s aggressive bid to produce original content for its growing e-commerce site.

But the tech sector was weighed down by losses in shares of Hewlett-Packard
HPQ, -1.30%
which shed 1% to $14.25, the second worst performer on the Dow Jones Industrial Average
DJIA, -1.11%
which was down 7 points.

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